Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan